These are the units CIWM registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with CIWM. It does the teaching and the mapping. CIWM sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Climate change adaptation auditing and reporting Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to adapt to climate change
- Understand how to manage energy
- Understand how to manage greenhouse gas emissions
- Understand how to measure and report greenhouse gas emissions
- Understand how to use, record and report information in relation to climate change
- Manage adaptation to climate change
- Manage energy requirements
- Manage greenhouse gas emissions
- Measure and report greenhouse gas emissions
- Use, record and communicate data and information in relation to climate change adaption
Comply with waste management legislation Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand waste management legislation requirements for the organisation
- Understand how to manage compliance with legislative and organisational requirements
- Understand how to communicate, use and record information in relation to legislative compliance
- Manage waste management legislation requirements for the organisation
- Manage organisational compliance with waste management legislation
- Communicate, use and record information in relation to legislative compliance
Contribute to the development of tender bid documentation and contractor selection Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare tenders in accordance with legislative and organisational requirements
- Understand how to evaluate tender bids in accordance with legislative and organisational requirements
- Understand how to select contracted services
- Prepare tenders in accordance with legislative and organisational requirements
- Evaluate tender bids in accordance with legislative and organisational requirements
- Select contracted services
Contribute to the selection of personnel for activities Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to identify personnel requirements
- Understand how to contribute to the selection of personnel for activities
- Contribute to identifying personnel requirements
- Contribute to the selection of personnel for activities
Create effective working relationships Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to create, develop and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues
- Understand how to create, develop and maintain effective working relationships with external contacts
- Create, develop and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues
- Create, develop and maintain effective working relationships with external contacts
Implement, manage and monitor contracted services Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to implement contracted services
- Understand how to manage contracted services
- Understand how to evaluate and review contracted services
- Understand how to resolve problems in relation to contracted services
- Understand how to communicate data and information in relation to contracted services
- Implement contracted services
- Manage contract performance
- Evaluate and review contract performance using data to enhance future contracts
- Use and communicate data and information in relation to contracted services
- Resolve problems arising from the implementation of contr
Manage a budget and support the efficient use of resources at a healthcare waste management facility Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare a budget at a healthcare waste management facility
- Understand how to manage a budget at a healthcare waste management facility
- Understand how to make recommendations for the use of resources at a healthcare waste management facility
- Understand how to contribute to the control of resources at a healthcare waste facility
- Understand how to communicate with, involve and motivate others in relation to the use of resources at a healthcare waste facility
- Prepare a budget within the limits of own responsibility
- Manage a budget within the limits of own responsib
Manage environmental incidents and emergencies Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to respond to incidents and emergencies
- Understand how to manage incidents and emergencies
- Understand how to develop and maintain effective systems for responding to incidents and emergencies
- Understand how to maintain health and safety during and after incident or emergency
- Understand how to use and communicate data in relation to incidents and emergencies
- Respond to incidents and emergencies
- Manage incidents and emergencies
- Develop and maintain effective systems for responding to emergencies
- Maintain health and safety during and after incident o
Manage health and safety during healthcare waste transport operations Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the underpinning regulations, procedures and requirements for managing health and safety during healthcare waste transfer operations
- Understand how to manage health and safety during healthcare waste transport operations
- Understand how to identify risks to health and safety during healthcare waste transport operations
- Understand how to limit danger and damage to human health and environmental health during healthcare waste transport operations
- Understand health and safety requirements in own area of responsibility during healthcare waste transport operations
- Manage heal
Manage improvements to waste management operations and practices based on principles of sustainability Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of sustainable waste and resource management
- Understand the waste hierarchy and its application in sustainable waste and resource management
- Understand how to manage improvements to sustainable waste and resource management operations
- Manage improvements to waste management operations
- Maintain the levels of facility operation in accordance with granted authorisations
- Contribute to the sustainable development of waste management operations
Manage maintenance and other engineering operations Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Manage maintenance and other engineering operations
- Use and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems that could affect maintenance and other operation
Manage sharps waste safely at a healthcare facility Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to manage sharps waste
- Understand how to use, record and communicate data and information in relation to sharps waste
- Manage sharps waste
- Use, record and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems which arise from managing sharps waste
Manage the collection of hazardous and non-hazardous waste from a healthcare facility Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the systems and procedures for waste identification, classification and collection
- Understand how to maintain records associated with waste identification, classification and collection
- Understand how to resolve problems which arise from waste identification and collection and promote the continual improvement
- Implement systems and procedures for waste identification, classification and collection
- Waste identification, sorting and collection
- Maintain records associated with waste identification, classification and collection
- Resolve problems which arise from waste i
Manage the environmental impact of work activities at healthcare facilities, treatment facilities, and transport operations Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to ensure the protection of the environment
- Understand the underpinning regulations, procedures and requirements related to environmental protection
- Implement systems to identify and deal with risks to the environment
- Develop a work environment that promotes responsibility for environmental well-being
- Use, communicate, and record data and information
- Resolve problems that could affect the environment
Manage waste transport operations for the transfer of hazardous and non-hazardous healthcare waste at a healthcare facility Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to manage healthcare waste transfer
- Understand how to organise a waste transfer
- Understand how to organise waste transportation
- Understand how to record and communicate data and information in relation to waste transfer
- Understand how to resolve problems which arise from managing the reception of waste
- Manage healthcare waste transfer
- Organise the waste transfer
- Organise the waste transportation
- Record and communicate data and information
- Resolve problems which arise from managing the reception of waste
Prepare and deliver in-house training Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare in-house training
- Understand how to deliver in-house training
- Understand how to implement an in-house training programme
- Understand how to evaluate in-house training
- Assess organisational training and development needs
- Define the training objective
- Design the training programme
- Adopt training principles for adults
- Develop the training programme
- Prepare to deliver a training programme
- Implement the training programme
- Evaluate the training programme
Review the performance of teams and individuals Real unit · CIWM
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how organisational context can impact work plans
- Understand how to work plan
- Understand how to communicate with individuals and teams regarding work plans
- Understand how to allocate work through effective delegation
- Understand how to involve and motivate team members
- Understand how to provide support to individuals
- Understand the importance of performance reviews in achieving continuous improvement
- Understand how to handle information in relation to performance reviews
- Allocate work to teams and individuals
- Agree objectives and work plans with teams and individu
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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Collect and act upon feedback from clients and customers to improve waste resource management services
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Contribute to the preparation and processing of tender procurement
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Contribute to the selection of personnel for activities
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Create and maintain effective working relationships with other people in Commissioning, Procurement and Contracting
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Deal with accidents, emergencies and incidents during information destruction operations
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Develop a Strategy for Inspections or Reviews
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Disposal of Clinical and Non-Clinical Waste within Healthcare
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Implement an audit trail for managing waste within healthcare
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Maintain, develop and share expertise and knowledge about waste resource management and sustainability
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Manage Major Emergency Situations
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Manage collection processes in the waste resource management industry
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Manage contracts to achieve outcomes
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Manage emergency situations that occur as a result of an EUSC intervention
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Manage patient flow
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Manage performance in commissioning, procurement and contracting
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Manually collect waste
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Manually collect waste
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Plan, develop and maintain effective relationships with relevant external bodies
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The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Where this can lead
Waste Reduction Coordinator
This role can lead into wider sustainability work, managing a waste and circularity function, or directing resource management across a business.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by CIWM rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Climate change adaptation auditing and reportingComply with waste management legislationContribute to the development of tender bid documentation and contractor selectionContribute to the selection of personnel for activitiesCreate effective working relationshipsImplement, manage and monitor contracted servicesManage a budget and support the efficient use of resources at a healthcare waste management facilityManage environmental incidents and emergencies
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Collect and act upon feedback from clients and customers to improve waste resource management services
- Contribute to the preparation and processing of tender procurement
- Contribute to the selection of personnel for activities
- Create and maintain effective working relationships with other people in Commissioning, Procurement and Contracting
- Deal with accidents, emergencies and incidents during information destruction operations
- Develop a Strategy for Inspections or Reviews
- Disposal of Clinical and Non-Clinical Waste within Healthcare
- Implement an audit trail for managing waste within healthcare
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This qualification is closed to new learners.
Ofqual lists it as no longer available to new learners. It cannot be started today. The last day to register was 30 November 2024. People already registered can complete it until 30 November 2026.
These are open to new learners in the same subject.
- CIWM (WAMITAB) Level 2 Certificate for Sustainable Waste Management Operative
- CIWM (WAMITAB) Level 2 Certificate for Waste and Resource Management Operative
- CIWM (WAMITAB) Level 2 Diploma for Sustainable Waste Management Operative (Team Leader)
- CIWM (WAMITAB) Level 3 Diploma for Waste Supervisor
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